Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
4957 Environment Place History

I created this keyword to depict when a history of a specific location is given whether it is the jail in Jefferson or the McCaslin planation. JJ
1348 Environment Place Hospital
1993 Environment Place Hotel
2430 Environment Place Hotel kitchen
3898 Environment Place Houses
4794 Environment Place Hovel
757 Environment Place Hunting camps
4946 Environment Place Indian agency
4021 Environment Place Indian mound
892 Environment Place Jail
878 Environment Place Jefferson
1410 Environment Place Lane
4653 Environment Place Lavatory
3899 Environment Place Lawns
733 Environment Place Library
2010 Environment Place Livery stable
2157 Environment Place Lonelier parts of town

Term for when a text makes reference to parts of town with fewer people or streets -- outskirts, edge of town, "less frequented" (as in "Miss Zilphia Gant"), and so forth. JBP
2012 Environment Place Lot
2050 Environment Place Mars
723 Environment Place McCaslin-Edmonds plantation
2037 Environment Place Medical practice

Any place where "doctoring" is practiced whether that is formal, as with Peabody, or more informal. JB
589 Environment Place Memphis
4840 Environment Place Military camp
4984 Environment Place Mill
5181 Environment Place Monastery
2049 Environment Place Moon
2274 Environment Place Motordrome
5582 Environment Place Negro district
4874 Environment Place Newspaper office
942 Environment Place Office
3058 Environment Place Official office
4944 Environment Place Okatoba
4943 Environment Place Old Jefferson
5150 Environment Place Orphanage
2543 Environment Place Outlaw country

On a number of occasions, Faulkner makes reference to stretches of outlaw country. Places where illegal and illicit practices transpire, but there is no enforcement by local or federal authority. This is particular in reference to Frenchman's Bend in the Hamlet, but also Ballenbaugh's historic emergence in the Reivers. JB
2561 Environment Place Paducah
4719 Environment Place Park
5513 Environment Place Pawn shop
1769 Environment Place Penitentiary
738 Environment Place Plantation
1290 Environment Place Playground
2016 Environment Place Pond
2004 Environment Place Poorhouse
2139 Environment Place Power Plant
4988 Environment Place Quarters
2233 Environment Place Railroad
1005 Environment Place Railroad log line
2044 Environment Place River-bottom
2805 Environment Place Road
557 Environment Place Rural
2766 Environment Place Saloon
1198 Environment Place Sawmill
4995 Environment Place School, segregated
1276 Environment Place Seedy parts of town
5202 Environment Place Seminary
5130 Environment Place Sheriff's office
4247 Environment Place Shrubbery
5608 Environment Place Slave market
2026 Environment Place Slave Quarters
2027 Environment Place Smokehouse
2960 Environment Place Speakeasy
2894 Environment Place Spring
4838 Environment Place Stable
3783 Environment Place Stone wall
1270 Environment Place Tavern
4897 Environment Place Tent
1326 Environment Place Vacant house
2125 Environment Place Vacant lot
4558 Environment Place Well|Wellhouse
1728 Environment Place Wilderness-civilized boundary
4983 Environment Place Yoknapatawpha Beat
5248 Actions Play Athletic competition
3777 Actions Play Betting
2074 Actions Play Card playing

Added for moments when it is unclear if (a) the game is poker, or (b) if gambling is occurring. -JBP
2729 Actions Play Checkers
2730 Actions Play Chess
2192 Actions Play Children playing
4723 Actions Play Fireworks
937 Actions Play Gambling
1858 Actions Play Historical recreation
4175 Actions Play Joking around
2480 Actions Play Playing in water

For when people (usually children) are playing (splashing, etc.) in water - a creek or branch - as in The Sound and the Fury. Distinct from "swimming" per se. JBP
1955 Actions Play Poker
3401 Actions Play Polo
4225 Actions Play Prank
1289 Actions Play School recess
3840 Actions Play Sport-fencing
3591 Actions Play Sports Crew / rowing
2205 Actions Play Sports Golf
3469 Actions Play Tennis
5456 Cultural Issues Politics And race
4955 Cultural Issues Politics Campaigning
1849 Cultural Issues Politics City government
2579 Cultural Issues Politics Conservative

In The Reivers Lucius Priest defines the various positions of Conservative, Liberal, Republican, and Democrat in the following manner: "Like this: a Republican is a man who made his money; a Liberal is a man who inherited his; a Democrat is a barefoot Liberal in a cross-country race; a Conservative is a Republican who has learned to read and write." (109) Though, these positions are hardly set in stone it is important to note the distinct separation between political outlook and political party. JB
5589 Cultural Issues Politics Corruption
4971 Cultural Issues Politics Demagoguery
2900 Cultural Issues Politics Democracy
2577 Cultural Issues Politics Democrat

In The Reivers Lucius Priest defines the various positions of Conservative, Liberal, Republican, and Democrat in the following manner: "Like this: a Republican is a man who made his money; a Liberal is a man who inherited his; a Democrat is a barefoot Liberal in a cross-country race; a Conservative is a Republican who has learned to read and write." (109) Though, these positions are hardly set in stone it is important to note the distinct separation between political outlook and political party. JB
1066 Cultural Issues Politics Election
4979 Cultural Issues Politics Exploitative

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